What Martin is saying is exactly what I remember. The same study was also done with a group of potential 1992 Olympians was actually on my final exam in grad school in 1992. I am trying to remember if maybe it was in medecine and science in sport and exercise or where we got it from.
- Ed Parrot ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin J. Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 5:07 PM Subject: Re: t-and-f: who would use drugs? > Gerald Woodward wrote: > > > Ed, > > > > Thanks for the info. I would not think that that high a percentage of > > athletes would say yes, knowing that they would die in five years, just to > > win an Olympic gold medal... > > Well...this doesn't necessarily mean the study took place or that it was > scientific if it did and it seems to me that I have heard various versions of > this since well prior to 1995. > > "A Scenario, from a 1995 poll of 198 sprinters, swimmers, powerlifters and other > assorted athletes, most of them U.S. Olympians of aspiring Olympians: > > You Are offered a banned performance-enhancing substance, with two guarantees: > 1) You will not be caught. 2) You will win. Would you take the substance? > > One hundred and ninety-five athletes said yes; three said no. > > Scenario II: You are offered a banned performance-enhancing substance that comes > with two guarantees: 1) You will not be caught. 2) You will win every > competition you enter for the next five years, and then you will die from the > side effects of the substance. Would you take it? > > More than half the athletes said yes." > > > > http://www.horizon-hs.net/~pe/gary%20paulson/wt%20lifting%20II/overtheedge.html > > Gerald Woodward wrote: > > > Ed, > > > > Thanks for the info. I would not think that that high a percentage of > > athletes would say yes, knowing that they would die in five years, just to > > win an Olympic gold medal! I would love to have one, but not at that cost! > > I enjoy life for the most part and have a lot of things that I still want to > > accomplish. The gold medal is not that important to me that I give up my > > life in five years, and I hate to lose even if I'm playing tiddlywinks!!! > > > > Gerald > > -- > Regards, > > > Martin > > > Martin J. Dixon, B. Math. (Hons), C.A., > Millard Financial Consulting Inc. > P.O. Box 367 > 96 Nelson Street > Brantford, Ontario > N3T 5N3 > Direct Dial: (519) 759-3708 Ext. 231 > Telephone: (519) 759-3511 > Private Facsimile: (519) 759-8548 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web site: www.millards.com > Practice Areas: http://www.millards.com/profs/mjd.htm > > > IMPORTANT NOTICE: > This email may be confidential, may be legally privileged, and is for > the intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution > or reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited and may be a > criminal offence. Please delete if obtained in error and email > confirmation to the sender. > >
